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package org.apache.commons.discovery;


/**
 * Interface representing a mapping
 * from a set of source resource names
 * to a resultant set of resource names.
 * 
 * @author Richard A. Sitze
 * @author Costin Manolache
 */
public interface ResourceNameDiscover
{
    /**
     * Locate names of resources that are bound to <code>resourceName</code>.
     * 
     * @return ResourceNameIterator
     */
    public ResourceNameIterator findResourceNames(String resourceName);

    /**
     * Locate names of resources that are bound to <code>resourceNames</code>.
     * 
     * @return ResourceNameIterator
     */
    public ResourceNameIterator findResourceNames(ResourceNameIterator resourceNames);
}